Just had a really great day on the slope and wanted to share the stunning scenery and weather. That's the main reason for the video: not much by way of flying, but just a celebration of slope soaring..

Awesome place you get to slope there Chris - amazing colors, beautiful sky and countryside, and thanks for posting what type of plane that was you were flying in the credits, I was just going to ask. The Valenta sure looks good in the air. Oh yes, nice flying too! Thanks for posting...

What a beautiful place to fly you got there Chris. How hard was it blowing by the way? The lift band looks enormous.

-Jonathan

It wasn't that hard, and TBH it was quite crossed and a little bit weak for that particular slope! I guess around 10 - 13 knots. I never go to this slope if the wind is forecast to be strong, it's an insane slope for lift!

Does anyone here use Sony Vegas? I'm stumped trying to find out a way of adjusting the exposure / brightness "on the timeline" (so that I can adjust it higher and lower as the video progresses, instead of one universal setting)?

Does anyone here use Sony Vegas? I'm stumped trying to find out a way of adjusting the exposure / brightness "on the timeline" (so that I can adjust it higher and lower as the video progresses, instead of one universal setting)?

Chris

Yes, I use it - and love it, except the terminology to get anything done is really obscure - so i struggle with it
I have set exposure/brightness differently for different "chunks" of video - assuming you have split it up into chunks? If its all-one still, then split it up as necessary so you can adjust separately?
(there's probably a much more elegant "expert" way to do it, but i'm no expert!)

Great video! I need to get a nice big ship like that so I can fly BEAUTIFUL BIG AIR ACROBATICS like that at Greens Peak... our only site an AZ that has that sort of landscape.

Regarding exposure: Your problem, as you probably know, is that your camera is auto exposing the scene as you shoot. The sky is so much brighter than the ground. The camera is compensating accordingly... stopping down in the brightness and opening back up in the darker stuff. If your camera had manual exposure you could pick the best compromise exposure and live with that.

You can fix it in post production doing what Phil said. You may not need to cut your video into "chunks." I use Final Cut Express and it lets me apply a brightness/contrast filter to a whole video clip; but gives me an adjustment curve that lets me apply different brightness/contrast settings to different parts of the clip. This is nice since it lets me smoothly blend in the brightness/contrast adjustments.

The down side to the post production solution is that is takes a lot longer to render the movie file.

Phil: Thanks, I am familiar with the splitter, but I really need to invest more time in the help menu...

Dawson: Thanks very much! It's not a HUGE ship (2.8 m w/s), but most of my slopes are conducive to big planes and big moves.

Thanks for the advice, I must do some test footage at different exposure settings. Without a doubt a manually set setting will improve on that auto exposure "hunting" effect... I don't want to increase rendering time too much TBH, I already shoot at "only" 720 x 1820 so as not to take too long...